Politics

South Africans Turn Against ANC

Corrupt, abusive and ineffective is no way to go through life

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South Africa seems no longer able to contain the contradictions and frustrated expectations that have been swept under the carpet since the country's first freely elected government came to power in 1994.

With new elections due in 2014, there is increasingly evident public anger at the governing African National Congress (ANC) — the party of liberation from apartheid and white minority rule — over its failure to meet its pledge to provide a better life for all.